Quality of life of adult patients with severe burns

Elsherbiny, Ola Ebrahim; Salem, Maha Adel; El-Sabbagh, Ahmed Hassan; El-Hadidy, Mohamed Adel; Eldeen, Sanaa Mohamed Alaa

doi:10.1016/j.burns.2010.12.017

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“…Although the epidemiological data of burn victims vary greatly from one country to another, some data in this study are similar to the national and international literature, such as male predominance (Gawryszewski et al, 2012;Van Loey et al, 2011;Vendrusculo, Balieiro, Echevarría-Guanilo, Farina Junior & Rossi, 2010), aged between 20 and 40 years (Dyster-Aas, Kildal, & Willebrand, 2007;Jarrett, McMahon, & Stiller, 2008;Theodorou, Xu, Weinand, Perbix, & Maegele, 2013), low level of education (Gawryszewski et al, 2012;Ringo & Chilonga, 2014), fire as the main etiological agent (Jarrett et al, 2008;Ricci et al, 2014), the home and the workplace as the places of higher frequency of occurrence (Ricci et al, 2014;Papp & Haythornthwaite, 2014;Elsherbiny, Salem, El-Sabbagh, Elhadidy, & Eldeen, 2011). The TBSA < 10% was the most prevalent and for the burned areas, Peck (2012) points out that the upper body is more susceptible and upper limbs are the most affected (Jarrett et al, 2008;Ringo & Chilonga, 2014).…”

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<b>Aerobic capacity, physical activity and pain in adult victims of moderate to severe burns after discharge

Itakussu

Valenciano

Fujisawa

et al. 2017

Acta Sci. Health Sci.

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ABSTRACT. Burns cause different impacts on the individual life. Many are the problems faced by survivors, such as hypermetabolism that may persist years after the event. The aim was to assess aerobic capacity, level of physical activity and pain in adult burn victims after hospital discharge. This is a descriptive, cross-sectional study. Participants (n = 60) were adult victims of moderate to severe burns, evaluated by six-minute walk test (6MWT), Pain Scale and International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ). We applied Student's t-test for independent samples and Mann-Whitney test for comparisons between medium and large burned; Chi-square test to compare the level of physical activity. Large burned (73%) patients prevailed among the 60 participants; there was a statistically significant trend in the distance predicted between groups (p = 0.066), with no change in performance of the aerobic capacity. 60% reported physical activity practice at least three times a week: walking, cycling and soccer. As for the level of pain, 40% reported moderate to severe persistent pain, even after complete healing of wounds. Most participants showed aerobic capacity within the normal range, despite the high body mass index reported, they reported doing physical activities of moderate intensity.Keywords: physical therapy, walking, exercise test, assessment.Capacidade aeróbica, atividade física e dor em adultos vítimas de queimaduras moderadas a graves após alta hospitalar RESUMO. As queimaduras causam diversos impactos na vida do indivíduo. Inúmeros são os problemas enfrentados pelos sobreviventes, como o hipermetabolismo, que pode persistir por anos após o evento. O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar a capacidade aeróbica, o nível de atividade física e a dor em adultos, vítimas de queimaduras após alta hospitalar. Neste estudo descritivo e transversal, participaram 60 adultos, vítimas de queimaduras moderadas a graves, avaliados pelo teste de caminhada de seis minutos (TC6min), pela Escala de Dor e pelo Questionário Internacional de Atividade Física (IPAQ). Utilizou-se Teste t Student independente e Mann-Whitney para comparações entre médios e grandes queimados; o Qui quadrado para comparação do nível de atividade física. Dos 60 pacientes, predominaram os grandes queimados (73%) e encontrou-se tendência estatística na distância predita entre os grupos (p = 0,066), sem alteração no desempenho da capacidade aeróbica. 60% referiram praticar atividade física pelo menos três vezes por semana: caminhadas, bicicleta e futebol. Quanto ao nível de dor, 40% dos avaliados mencionaram dores persistentes de moderadas a intensas, mesmo após a cicatrização total das feridas. A maioria dos adultos, vítimas de queimaduras moderadas a graves, encontra-se com a sua capacidade aeróbica dentro da normalidade e, apesar do elevado índice de massa corpórea, afirma realizar atividades físicas de moderada intensidade.Palavras-chave: fisioterapia, caminhada, teste de esforço, avaliação.

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<b>Aerobic capacity, physical activity and pain in adult victims of moderate to severe burns after discharge

Itakussu

Valenciano

Fujisawa

et al. 2017

Acta Sci. Health Sci.

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“…26 The extent of the full-thickness injury and age have been identified as predictive factors for poorer QoL. Similarly, a previous study by Elsherbiny et al 30 found no statistically significant correlation between the age of burn survivors and their QoL scores. 28,29 In this study, we did not observe a statistically significant correlation between sex and the HRQoL scores.…”

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Treatment of Patients With Severe Burns—Costs and Health-Related Quality of Life Outcome

Koljonen

Laitila

Rissanen

et al. 2013

Journal of Burn Care & Research

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To study the effectiveness of the treatment of patients with severe burns, the authors collected health-related quality of life (HRQoL) data with the 15D instrument, 17 to 29 months after treatment had commenced at the national burns unit. The costs of each patient's secondary care treatment were followed for a mean of 66 months. During the 1-year study period, 107 patients were treated at the burns unit, eight for scar surgery, the remainder for primary treatment of a burn injury; 19 had died or could not be located during the time of the HRQoL survey. Of the remaining 88 patients, 43 (49%; mean [SD] age 45.7 [14.8] years; 70% men) returned the questionnaire. Their mean (SD) HRQoL score (0.909[0.113]) was only slightly, and not significantly, lower than that of the age- and sex- standardized general population (0.928[0.080]). The mean (SD) secondary care cost of burn treatment of for all the 107 patients, over the 60- to 72-month observation time, was 42,838 USD (73,569 USD; range 1319-34,8741 USD). The largest portion of the total cost was because of inpatient treatment (61%) followed by operations (22%), and outpatient visits. In addition to the costs of burns treatment, the patients consumed other secondary care services to a value of nearly 12,229 USD. The HRQoL in patients treated for severe burns is good, thus the observed high-treatment costs can be considered acceptable.

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“…This result congruent with Pishnamazy et al, [34] who founded that burn patients are faced with many problems which affected their QOL, especially the psychological aspects. Elsherbiny et al [35] revealed that burns has several complications on most dimensions of the QOL of patients with burns. In the same line Grisbrook et al, [36] who showed that completing a 12-week exercise program would improve the QOL of these patients.…”

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The effect of self-care nursing intervention model on self-esteem and quality of life among burn patients

Elalem

Shehata

Shattla

2018

CNS

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Objective: Burn injuries and their complications are considered the major health problems throughout the world as it has a negative effect on function of the burned part that result in psychological disturbance as depression, anxiety, irritability, body image dissatisfaction and post-traumatic stress disorder are common in burn patients that associated with adverse out comes including poor quality of life (QOL), low self-esteem, stigmatization and increase mortality. This study aimed to investigate the effect of self-care nursing intervention model on self-esteem and quality of life among burn patients. Methods: A quasi-experimental research design was utilized. The study was conducted at burn unit of emergency hospital, Menoufia University at Menoufia governorate, Egypt. A convenience sample of 34 adult patients (one group pre/post test) with 2 nd degree burn and exposed to self care nursing intervention model that include (self-care requisites, stress management techniques and strategies for improving self esteem) in addition to routine hospital care. Three tools were used to fulfill: Tool I: Burn assessment tool, Tool II: Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale and Tool III: World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL) scale. Results: The main findings of the study there was statistically significant improvement of self-care knowledge related to burn management after implementing self-care model. There was statistically significant improvement of self-esteem and QOL among burn patients post-intervention than pre-intervention. Conclusions: The overall findings in the present study revealed that implementing self-care nursing intervention model at burn unit was effective when providing care as it encouraged patient to be an active participant in care and had a significant improvement of self-care management, self-esteem and QOL among burn patients. Recommendations: The self-care theory has shown to be the basis when providing nursing care as it helps in promoting therapeutic communication and trust relationship between the patient and the nurse so that encourage nurses to work and providing care with nursing theories.

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Quality of life of adult patients with severe burns

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<b>Aerobic capacity, physical activity and pain in adult victims of moderate to severe burns after discharge

<b>Aerobic capacity, physical activity and pain in adult victims of moderate to severe burns after discharge

Treatment of Patients With Severe Burns—Costs and Health-Related Quality of Life Outcome

The effect of self-care nursing intervention model on self-esteem and quality of life among burn patients

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